VACUUM TUBE FACTORY IN WARSAW (PRODUCTS AND LAYOUT)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A044400580001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 26, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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factory (defined by hearsay as "big") in Lower Silesia, in Szkle.rska
Poreba (almost on the Czech border, near Ceplice Zdro~). This factory
is reportedly called "Szkla.rska~a Huta" (Glassworks).
The receipt of raw materials is steady. The factory is said to be
the only one in Poland which has completely fulfilled its production plans.
Descri tion of the complex
See letter A on the sketch in Attachment No. l; the following numbers
correspond to these appearing on the sketch.
Note: All the buildings have flat roofs.
1. Brick wall about 2.5 meters high.
2. The main factory building, an 11-story structure measuring about 100 by
20 meters. It is equipped with both passenger and frei~h elevators.
a. Ground floor: used for storehouse and light-+bulb washing depart-
ment. It is subdivided into the following sections:
P "A" (Partita (?) or Parterre (?) "~"); here are delivered the
glass bulbs from the factory in Szklarska Poreba, as well as alcohol, zinc,
tin, and various metals and resins, from East Germany,
and from elsewhere in Poland;
P "1" (Partita (?) or Parterre (?) "1"), this is the section where
the glass bulbs are washed in a solution called Truiclor.
About 100 persons are employred on a single shift [in these two sections].
b. Second floor: department for the production and processing of elec-
tric light filaments. Two shifts.
c. Third floor: Two departments: Department E9, where the vacuum
tubes and cathode tubes for television sets are assembled; and the depart-
went working on military radio sets.
the per-
sonnel employed here are~:.military and ~~the technical foremen wear
in the department for the production of tele-
vision tubes and cathode tubes, rejects amounted to at least 25 percent of
the output.
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Operations on this floor are carried on in three shifts.
d. Fourth floor: Chemical laboratories, operating on in a single shift.
e. Fifth floor: Department for the production of radio-tube filaments,
employing about 200 workers on a single shift.
f. Sixth floor: Department for the production of cathodes and anodes.
not know the number of workers here. Single shift.
g. Seventh floor: subdivided into three departments:
"E-1", where tubes for civilian radios are assembled;
"P-3", where filaments are produced, perhaps for microtubes; and
"E-6", where microtubes for civilian and military radios are assembled.
From here the microtubes go to the military production department on the
third floor.
"E-1" is the main unit of the complex. It
employs 150 workers on each of three shifts. The types of tubes assembled
have already been mentioned under "Production."
Equipment: four gas pumps for "soldering the tubes".
The pumps came from East Germany.
h. Eighth floor: Department for the production of circuits, diodes,
anodes, screens, and bridges for tubes, operating on two shifts.
i. Ninth floor: Control department for the Eighth floor. It is
practically a mezzanine of the Eighth floor, where the department foremen
checker the parts produced.
3. Tenth floor?
k. Eleventh floor: Department for the production of tube sockets
and for washing various tube parts, operating on two shifts.
3. Two buildings measuring about ~0 by 10 meters, one used as a machine
shop and the other as a technical and metalworking department.
~+. Transformer shed.
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